Or is not a poison one of the mysteries of nature? …For what thing is there, created by God, which is not endowed with some great gift for the good of mankind? Why then should poisons be thrown aside and despised when it is not the poison but nature that is being tried? …He who despises poison is ignorant of what resides therein.
Paracelsus, “Seven Arguments, Answering to Several of the Detractions of His Envious Critics”, 3rd argument by way of describing the new prescriptions
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